Theme Preview: org-beautify


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Packageorg-beautify-theme - melpa
Source Repositoryhttps://github.com/jonnay/org-beautify-theme
Keywordsfaces org theme
SummaryA sub-theme to make org-mode more beautiful.
Version20250730.2044
Websitehttps://github.com/jonnay/org-beautify-theme
Commit5301f8cfab127f4219aad83e52787898f0710d4f
AuthorJonathan Arkell <jonnay@jonnay.net>
Sub-theme to beautify org mode

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  • Making Org-mode Beautiful
    ** This theme is dedicated to my wife Shell
    Who—in her beauty, her love, and her love for beauty—has shown me
    that form can enhance function.

  • Mission

    • Make org mode headlines easy to read. In any theme.
    • Make it look more like a published book and/or desktop app, less
      like angry fruit salad.
    • Make it awesome to live in an org buffer.

  • Usage
    Load this theme over top your existing theme, and you should be
    golden. If you find any incompatibilities, let me know with what
    theme and I will try and fix it.

    When loading a whole new theme overtop, org-beautify-theme will
    still be active with the old theme. Just unload org-beautify-theme
    and then reload it, and everything will be fine again.

    If you still get really ugly headlines, customize the
    ~org-beautify-theme-use-box-hack~ variable and set it to nil (false).

  • Changelog

    • v0.5 :: [2025-07-30]
      • ACTUALLY fix checkboxes
      • Fix lint errors
    • v0.4 :: [2017-09-08]
      • Add org-beautify-theme-use-box-hack to allow the user to
        fix ugly boxes.
    • v0.3.2 :: [2017-08-29]
      • Update License
    • v0.3.1 :: [2016-10-19]
      • Fix load path issues (Thanks PierreTechoueyres!)
      • reverse chronological changelog, because ah-doy!
    • v0.2 :: [2016-08-08]
      • Better repository Location
      • Fix so that you can load the theme properly.
    • v0.1.2 :: [2014-01-06]
      • Add Verdana font to fall back on
    • v0.1.1 :: [2014-01-06]
      • Fix checkboxes
    • v0.1 :: First Release
      • Make the colors suck a lot less, and the buffers look a lot nicer.

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c-mode
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   1 #ifdef HAVE_TREE_SITTER
   2 #include "treesit.h"
   3 #endif
   4 
   5 enum equal_kind { EQUAL_NO_QUIT, EQUAL_PLAIN, EQUAL_INCLUDING_PROPERTIES };
   6 static bool internal_equal (Lisp_Object, Lisp_Object,
   7                             enum equal_kind, int, Lisp_Object);
   8 static EMACS_UINT sxhash_obj (Lisp_Object, int);
   9 
  10 DEFUN ("identity", Fidentity, Sidentity, 1, 1, 0,
  11        doc: /* Return the ARGUMENT unchanged.  */
  12        attributes: const)
  13   (Lisp_Object argument)
  14 {
  15   return argument;
  16 }
 -:**-  c-mode         All L17    (C/*l Abbrev) 
   1 ;; This buffer is for text that is not saved, and for Lisp evaluation.
   2 
 -:**-  emacs-lisp-mode<3>   All L3     (ELisp/d ElDoc)
org-mode
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   1 *** Using Org's git repository
   2 :PROPERTIES:
   3 :UNNUMBERED: notoc
   4 :END:
   5 
   6 You can clone Org's repository and install Org like this:
   7 
   8 #+begin_example
   9 $ cd ~/src/
  10 $ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/org-mode.git
  11 $ cd org-mode/
  12 $ make autoloads
  13 #+end_example
  14 
  15 Note that in this case, =make autoloads= is mandatory: it defines
  16 Org's version in =org-version.el= and Org's autoloads in
  17 =org-loaddefs.el=.
  18 
  19 Make sure you set the load path correctly in your Emacs init file:
  20 
  21 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  22 (add-to-list 'load-path "~/src/org-mode/lisp")
  23 #+end_src
 -:**-  org-mode       All L24    (Org) 
   1 ;; This buffer is for text that is not saved, and for Lisp evaluation.
   2 
 -:**-  emacs-lisp-mode<4>   All L3     (ELisp/d ElDoc)
emacs-lisp-mode
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   1 ;; `org-beautify' theme showcase -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
   2 (require 'elisp-demos)
   3 (advice-add 'helpful-update :after #'elisp-demos-advice-helpful-update)
   4 
   5 (defvar elisp-doc--code-wrap-regexp "\\(?:\n[ \t]+[^[:space:]].+$\\)+")
   6 (defun elisp-doc--highlight-doc-lisp (entry)
   7   "Find indented blocks in ENTRY and highlight them as Lisp code.
   8 Uses `helpful--syntax-highlight'."
   9   (when-let* ((doc (elisp-doc--find-section entry "Documentation")))
  10     (goto-char (elisp-doc-entry-section-start doc))
  11     (while (and (not (eobp))
  12                 (re-search-forward elisp-doc--code-wrap-regexp
  13                                    (elisp-doc-entry-section-end doc) t))
  14       (when (progn (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
  15                    (skip-chars-forward "\n \t")
  16                    (eq ?\( (char-after)))
  17         (let* ((start (1+ (match-beginning 0)))
  18                (end (match-end 0))
  19                (text (helpful--syntax-highlight
  20                       (buffer-substring-no-properties start end))))
  21           (goto-char start)
  22           (delete-region start end)
  23           (insert text))))))
 -:**-  emacs-lisp-mode   All L24    (ELisp/d ElDoc) 
   1 ;; This buffer is for text that is not saved, and for Lisp evaluation.
   2 
 -:**-  emacs-lisp-mode<2>   All L3     (ELisp/d ElDoc)
js-mode
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   1 import 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/minisearch@7.2.0/dist/umd/index.min.js';
   2 
   3 (() => {
   4   const tableElement = document.querySelector('.table') || window.dataTable;
   5   if (!tableElement) {
   6     return;
   7   }
   8   const where = document.querySelector('button') || tableElement;
   9 
  10   /**
  11    * @type {{symbol: string, file: string}[]}
  12    */
  13   const rows = [...tableElement.querySelectorAll('tr')];
  14   const data = rows.map((tr, i) => ({
  15     id: i,
  16     symbol: tr.childNodes[0].textContent,
  17     file: tr.childNodes[1].textContent,
  18   }));
  19   const container = document.createElement('div');
  20   container.classList.add('table', 'show');
  21   container.innerHTML = `
  22 <table><thead><tr>
  23 <th>Symbol<br><input id="symbol"></th>
  24 <th>File<br><input id="file"></th>
  25 </tr></thead><tbody id="results"></tbody></table>
  26 <div class="paging"><button id="prev">Prev</button>
  27 <span id="page">1-${paging.page} of ${paging.page}</span>
  28 <button id="next">Next</button></div>
  29 `;
  30   where.parentNode.replaceChild(container, where);
  31   const style = document.createElement('style');
  32   // ...
  33 })();
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   1 ;; This buffer is for text that is not saved, and for Lisp evaluation.
   2 
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html-mode
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   1 <!DOCTYPE html>
   2 <html>
   3     <head>
   4         <meta charset="UTF-8">
   5         <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://doc.emacsen.de/elisp/nil-and-t.html">
   6         <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="48x48">
   7         <link rel="icon" href="/icon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
   8         <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">
   9         <script type="text/javascript">
  10              window.location.pathname='/elisp/nil-and-t.html'
  11         </script>
  12         <title>Emacs Lisp Boolean Values</title>
  13     </head>
  14     <body>
  15         Visit <a href="/elisp/nil-and-t.html">nil and t (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual)</a>
  16         for <code>nil</code> and <code>t</code> documentation.
  17     </body>
  18 </html>
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   1 ;; This buffer is for text that is not saved, and for Lisp evaluation.
   2 
 -:**-  emacs-lisp-mode<5>   All L3     (ELisp/d ElDoc)
css-mode
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   1 :root {
   2   --background:#f8f8ff;
   3   --text-muted:#70777f;
   4   --links:#0076d1;
   5   --border:#dbdbdb;
   6 }
   7 @media (prefers-color-scheme:dark) {
   8   :root {
   9     --background:#161f27;
  10     --text-muted:#a9b1ba;
  11     --links:#41adff;
  12     --border:#526980;
  13   }
  14 }
  15 html {
  16   margin: 0 1em;
  17 }
  18 body {
  19   line-height: 1.4;
  20   max-width: 800px;
  21   margin: 20px auto;
  22   word-wrap: break-word;
  23   text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  24 }
 -:**-  css-mode       All L25    (CSS) 
   1 ;; This buffer is for text that is not saved, and for Lisp evaluation.
   2 
 -:**-  emacs-lisp-mode<7>   All L3     (ELisp/d ElDoc)